For my Week 3 reading I choose the Aesop for Children (Winter). I deiced on this reading because I have already written a story over The Fable of Aesop and enjoyed those readings. I wanted to see how they were similar and if there were any differences that I could incorporate into a new story for this week. One main theme of all of the stories is that the last line is a “moral of the story” line. The stories do this to help summarize for the readers what they should have learned from the story. Some of these morals are even still used today like “do not attempt too much at once”, which I am sure people today have heard of “don’t fill your plate too full”. (This moral comes from The Boy and the Filberts story.) Another common theme throughout many of the stories is that animals on top of the food-chain are usually portrayed as the bad guy/villain. Examples include in the three stories where the fox in The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, and the wolf in both The Wolf and the Kid and The Wolf and the Ass these animals were trying to trick the others so that they could eat them. Pride and vanity are also repeated themes in the different stories. The lion is also mention in many of the different Aesop fables and always as the King. While there may already be an origin story about how the lion became King this could be an intriguing story to write that could go with the fables.
The Moral of the Story. Source: Vimeo by NCC Sermons
No comments:
Post a Comment